A Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama, 1880 - 2005
Herausgeber: Luckhurst, Mary
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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.
An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama. Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism. Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism;…mehr
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This wide-ranging Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama offers challenging analyses of a range of plays in their political contexts. It explores the cultural, social, economic and institutional agendas that readers need to engage with in order to appreciate modern theatre in all its complexity.
An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
An authoritative guide to modern British and Irish drama.
Engages with theoretical discourses challenging a canon that has privileged London as well as white English males and realism.
Topics covered include: national, regional and fringe theatres; post-colonial stages and multiculturalism; feminist and queer theatres; sex and consumerism; technology and globalisation; representations of war, terrorism, and trauma.
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- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 608
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 37mm
- Gewicht: 1040g
- ISBN-13: 9781444332049
- ISBN-10: 144433204X
- Artikelnr.: 28103725
- Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- 1. Auflage
- Seitenzahl: 608
- Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2010
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 37mm
- Gewicht: 1040g
- ISBN-13: 9781444332049
- ISBN-10: 144433204X
- Artikelnr.: 28103725
Mary Luckhurst is Senior Lecturer in Modern Drama at the University of York. She is the author of Dramaturgy: A Revolution in Theatre (2006), co-author of The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays (2002), and co-editor of Theatre and Celebrity in Britain, 1660-2000 (2005). She has also edited The Creative Writing Handbook: Techniques for New Writers (1996), On Directing: Interviews with Directors (1999), and On Acting: Interviews with Actors (2002). She was awarded a University of York outstanding teaching award in 2006 and is also one of the Higher Education Academy's National Teaching Fellows.
Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors.
Introduction (Mary Luckhurst). Part I Contexts. 1 Domestic and Imperial
Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre (Victor
Merriman). 2 Reinventing England (Declan Kiberd). 3 Ibsen in the English
Theatre in the Fin de Siecle (Katherine Newey). 4 New Woman Drama (Sally
Ledger). Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900 - 1939. 5 Shaw among the Artists
(Jan McDonald). 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists (Cary M.
Mazer). 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre (Mary Trotter). 8
Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment (Susan
Carlson). 9 Unlocking Synge Today (Christopher Murray). 10 Sean O'Casey's
Powerful Fireworks (Jean Chothia). 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the
Thirties (Robin Grove). Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939 - 1990. 12
Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy (Mary
Brewer). 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John
Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland (Stephen Lacey). 14 A Commercial
Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s (Susan Bennett). 15 Home Thoughts
from Abroad: Mustapha Matura (D. Keith Peacock). 16 The Remains of the
British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock (Gabriele Griffin). Part IV
Comedy. 17 Wilde's Comedies (Richard Allen Cave). 18 Always Acting: Noe¿l
Coward and the Performing Self (Frances Gray). 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy
(Katharine Worth). 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan
(John Brannigan). 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity (David
Higgins). 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy (Alexander Leggatt). 23
'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy (Paul
Delaney). 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors (Anthony Roche). Part V War
and Terror. 25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I (Mary Luckhurst). 26
Staging 'the Holocaust' in England (John Lennard). 27 Troubling
Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama (Helen Lojek). 28
On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience (Dawn Fowler and John Lennard).
29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter (Mary Luckhurst). 30 Sarah
Kane: From Terror to Trauma (Steve Waters). Part VI Theatre since 1968. 31
Theatre since 1968 (David Pattie). 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on
the West End Front (John Deeney). 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths (Michael
Patterson). 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre (Maria DiCenzo).
35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the
Permanent Way (John Deeney). 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political
Theatre (John Bull). 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories,
Ancient and Modern (Jan McDonald). 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and
Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland (Shaun Richards). 39
Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global (Elin Diamond). 40 Howard Barker and the
Theatre of Catastrophe (Chris Megson). 41 Reading History in the Plays of
Brian Friel (Lionel Pilkington). 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction:
Language, Space and Landscape (Cathy Leeney). 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony
Harrison's Stagings of the Past (Richard Rowland). 44 The Question of
Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams (D. Keith Peacock). 45 Ed
Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language (David Ian Rabey). 46 Theatre
and Technology (Andy Lavender). Index.
Introduction (Mary Luckhurst). Part I Contexts. 1 Domestic and Imperial
Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre (Victor
Merriman). 2 Reinventing England (Declan Kiberd). 3 Ibsen in the English
Theatre in the Fin de Siecle (Katherine Newey). 4 New Woman Drama (Sally
Ledger). Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900 - 1939. 5 Shaw among the Artists
(Jan McDonald). 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists (Cary M.
Mazer). 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre (Mary Trotter). 8
Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment (Susan
Carlson). 9 Unlocking Synge Today (Christopher Murray). 10 Sean O'Casey's
Powerful Fireworks (Jean Chothia). 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the
Thirties (Robin Grove). Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939 - 1990. 12
Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy (Mary
Brewer). 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John
Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland (Stephen Lacey). 14 A Commercial
Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s (Susan Bennett). 15 Home Thoughts
from Abroad: Mustapha Matura (D. Keith Peacock). 16 The Remains of the
British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock (Gabriele Griffin). Part IV
Comedy. 17 Wilde's Comedies (Richard Allen Cave). 18 Always Acting: Noe¿l
Coward and the Performing Self (Frances Gray). 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy
(Katharine Worth). 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan
(John Brannigan). 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity (David
Higgins). 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy (Alexander Leggatt). 23
'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy (Paul
Delaney). 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors (Anthony Roche). Part V War
and Terror. 25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I (Mary Luckhurst). 26
Staging 'the Holocaust' in England (John Lennard). 27 Troubling
Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama (Helen Lojek). 28
On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience (Dawn Fowler and John Lennard).
29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter (Mary Luckhurst). 30 Sarah
Kane: From Terror to Trauma (Steve Waters). Part VI Theatre since 1968. 31
Theatre since 1968 (David Pattie). 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on
the West End Front (John Deeney). 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths (Michael
Patterson). 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre (Maria DiCenzo).
35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the
Permanent Way (John Deeney). 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political
Theatre (John Bull). 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories,
Ancient and Modern (Jan McDonald). 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and
Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland (Shaun Richards). 39
Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global (Elin Diamond). 40 Howard Barker and the
Theatre of Catastrophe (Chris Megson). 41 Reading History in the Plays of
Brian Friel (Lionel Pilkington). 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction:
Language, Space and Landscape (Cathy Leeney). 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony
Harrison's Stagings of the Past (Richard Rowland). 44 The Question of
Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams (D. Keith Peacock). 45 Ed
Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language (David Ian Rabey). 46 Theatre
and Technology (Andy Lavender). Index.
Acknowledgements. List of Illustrations. Notes on Contributors.
Introduction (Mary Luckhurst). Part I Contexts. 1 Domestic and Imperial
Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre (Victor
Merriman). 2 Reinventing England (Declan Kiberd). 3 Ibsen in the English
Theatre in the Fin de Siecle (Katherine Newey). 4 New Woman Drama (Sally
Ledger). Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900 - 1939. 5 Shaw among the Artists
(Jan McDonald). 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists (Cary M.
Mazer). 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre (Mary Trotter). 8
Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment (Susan
Carlson). 9 Unlocking Synge Today (Christopher Murray). 10 Sean O'Casey's
Powerful Fireworks (Jean Chothia). 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the
Thirties (Robin Grove). Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939 - 1990. 12
Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy (Mary
Brewer). 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John
Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland (Stephen Lacey). 14 A Commercial
Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s (Susan Bennett). 15 Home Thoughts
from Abroad: Mustapha Matura (D. Keith Peacock). 16 The Remains of the
British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock (Gabriele Griffin). Part IV
Comedy. 17 Wilde's Comedies (Richard Allen Cave). 18 Always Acting: Noe¿l
Coward and the Performing Self (Frances Gray). 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy
(Katharine Worth). 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan
(John Brannigan). 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity (David
Higgins). 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy (Alexander Leggatt). 23
'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy (Paul
Delaney). 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors (Anthony Roche). Part V War
and Terror. 25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I (Mary Luckhurst). 26
Staging 'the Holocaust' in England (John Lennard). 27 Troubling
Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama (Helen Lojek). 28
On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience (Dawn Fowler and John Lennard).
29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter (Mary Luckhurst). 30 Sarah
Kane: From Terror to Trauma (Steve Waters). Part VI Theatre since 1968. 31
Theatre since 1968 (David Pattie). 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on
the West End Front (John Deeney). 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths (Michael
Patterson). 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre (Maria DiCenzo).
35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the
Permanent Way (John Deeney). 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political
Theatre (John Bull). 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories,
Ancient and Modern (Jan McDonald). 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and
Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland (Shaun Richards). 39
Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global (Elin Diamond). 40 Howard Barker and the
Theatre of Catastrophe (Chris Megson). 41 Reading History in the Plays of
Brian Friel (Lionel Pilkington). 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction:
Language, Space and Landscape (Cathy Leeney). 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony
Harrison's Stagings of the Past (Richard Rowland). 44 The Question of
Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams (D. Keith Peacock). 45 Ed
Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language (David Ian Rabey). 46 Theatre
and Technology (Andy Lavender). Index.
Introduction (Mary Luckhurst). Part I Contexts. 1 Domestic and Imperial
Politics in Britain and Ireland: The Testimony of Irish Theatre (Victor
Merriman). 2 Reinventing England (Declan Kiberd). 3 Ibsen in the English
Theatre in the Fin de Siecle (Katherine Newey). 4 New Woman Drama (Sally
Ledger). Part II Mapping New Ground, 1900 - 1939. 5 Shaw among the Artists
(Jan McDonald). 6 Granville Barker and the Court Dramatists (Cary M.
Mazer). 7 Gregory, Yeats and Ireland's Abbey Theatre (Mary Trotter). 8
Suffrage Theatre: Community Activism and Political Commitment (Susan
Carlson). 9 Unlocking Synge Today (Christopher Murray). 10 Sean O'Casey's
Powerful Fireworks (Jean Chothia). 11 Auden and Eliot: Theatres of the
Thirties (Robin Grove). Part III England, Class and Empire, 1939 - 1990. 12
Empire and Class in the Theatre of John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy (Mary
Brewer). 13 When Was the Golden Age? Narratives of Loss and Decline: John
Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland (Stephen Lacey). 14 A Commercial
Success: Women Playwrights in the 1950s (Susan Bennett). 15 Home Thoughts
from Abroad: Mustapha Matura (D. Keith Peacock). 16 The Remains of the
British Empire: The Plays of Winsome Pinnock (Gabriele Griffin). Part IV
Comedy. 17 Wilde's Comedies (Richard Allen Cave). 18 Always Acting: Noe¿l
Coward and the Performing Self (Frances Gray). 19 Beckett's Divine Comedy
(Katharine Worth). 20 Form and Ethics in the Comedies of Brendan Behan
(John Brannigan). 21 Joe Orton: Anger, Artifice and Absurdity (David
Higgins). 22 Alan Ayckbourn: Experiments in Comedy (Alexander Leggatt). 23
'They Both Add up to Me': The Logic of Tom Stoppard's Dialogic Comedy (Paul
Delaney). 24 Stewart Parker's Comedy of Terrors (Anthony Roche). Part V War
and Terror. 25 AWounded Stage: Drama and World War I (Mary Luckhurst). 26
Staging 'the Holocaust' in England (John Lennard). 27 Troubling
Perspectives: Northern Ireland, the 'Troubles' and Drama (Helen Lojek). 28
On War: Charles Wood's Military Conscience (Dawn Fowler and John Lennard).
29 Torture in the Plays of Harold Pinter (Mary Luckhurst). 30 Sarah
Kane: From Terror to Trauma (Steve Waters). Part VI Theatre since 1968. 31
Theatre since 1968 (David Pattie). 32 Lesbian and Gay Theatre: All Queer on
the West End Front (John Deeney). 33 Edward Bond: Maker of Myths (Michael
Patterson). 34 John McGrath and Popular Political Theatre (Maria DiCenzo).
35 David Hare and Political Playwriting: Between the Third Way and the
Permanent Way (John Deeney). 36 Left in Front: David Edgar's Political
Theatre (John Bull). 37 Liz Lochhead: Writer and Re-Writer: Stories,
Ancient and Modern (Jan McDonald). 38 'Spirits that Have Become Mean and
Broken': Tom Murphy and the 'Famine' of Modern Ireland (Shaun Richards). 39
Caryl Churchill: Feeling Global (Elin Diamond). 40 Howard Barker and the
Theatre of Catastrophe (Chris Megson). 41 Reading History in the Plays of
Brian Friel (Lionel Pilkington). 42 Marina Carr: Violence and Destruction:
Language, Space and Landscape (Cathy Leeney). 43 Scrubbing up Nice? Tony
Harrison's Stagings of the Past (Richard Rowland). 44 The Question of
Multiculturalism: The Plays of Roy Williams (D. Keith Peacock). 45 Ed
Thomas: Jazz Pictures in the Gaps of Language (David Ian Rabey). 46 Theatre
and Technology (Andy Lavender). Index.